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Gdb had a critical role to play in popularizing Stripe's CTFs and making them interesting as they are. I really hope that his departure from Stripe this doesn't

Gdb had a critical role to play in popularizing Stripe's CTFs and making them interesting as they are. I really hope that his departure from Stripe this doesn't change the CTF. Wishing him the best with whatever he's planned! Edit: Typos

Bootvis 11y ago
Let me also say thank you for the CTF's! I enjoyed them immensely. Please get in touch with the Starfighter guys ;)
- tptacek 11y ago
  Hey, Greg! Get in touch! :) (We're three equal founders and not all male, for what it's worth).
danellis 11y ago
gdb had a critical role in solving some of them, too ;-)
danellis 11y ago
While he did promote them, they were all built by Siddarth Chandrasekaran, who is still at Stripe. So hopefully he'll keep that up.
- siddarthcs 11y ago
  This is said Siddarth Chandrasekaran. :) I proposed the first Stripe CTF, inspired by SmashTheStack (http://smashthestack.org/ http://smashthestack.org/), but the resulting Stripe CTFs are the result of many, many hours of several folks' work (Andy Brody, Carl Jackson, Christian Anderson, gdb, Jonas Schneider, Jorge Ortiz, Ludwig Petterson, Nelson Elhage, Philipp Antoni, Steve Woodrow, and myself). And yes, it's certainly a tradition that we hope to keep up!
  - dencold 11y ago
    Siddarth, any word on when the 2015 edition of CTF will be out? I check the stripe blog every week or so hoping for some mention of timeline. I loved CTF3. You guys do a fantastic job on these. THANK YOU.
    - tptacek 11y ago
      What'd you love about CTF3?
      - grey-area 11y ago
        Not the op, but it had great docs including links to interesting papers, referenced real world problems (git, cryptocurrencies, consensus), had a set of levels organised around the theme of consensus nicely graded from easy to quite hard, and was doable in about a day of solid effort. Even if you didn't complete it probably felt like a learning experience for most people. Also, it was fun. Finally, the meetup afterward run by Greg explaining their architecture and issues encountered was interesting.
  - danellis 11y ago
    Oh, I was just quoting gdb, who told me "he built all our CTFs" :-)

Bootvis 11y ago

Let me also say thank you for the CTF's! I enjoyed them immensely. Please get in touch with the Starfighter guys ;)

tptacek 11y ago
Hey, Greg! Get in touch! :) (We're three equal founders and not all male, for what it's worth).

danellis 11y ago

gdb had a critical role in solving some of them, too ;-)

danellis 11y ago

While he did promote them, they were all built by Siddarth Chandrasekaran, who is still at Stripe. So hopefully he'll keep that up.

siddarthcs 11y ago
This is said Siddarth Chandrasekaran. :) I proposed the first Stripe CTF, inspired by SmashTheStack (http://smashthestack.org/ http://smashthestack.org/), but the resulting Stripe CTFs are the result of many, many hours of several folks' work (Andy Brody, Carl Jackson, Christian Anderson, gdb, Jonas Schneider, Jorge Ortiz, Ludwig Petterson, Nelson Elhage, Philipp Antoni, Steve Woodrow, and myself). And yes, it's certainly a tradition that we hope to keep up!
- dencold 11y ago
  Siddarth, any word on when the 2015 edition of CTF will be out? I check the stripe blog every week or so hoping for some mention of timeline. I loved CTF3. You guys do a fantastic job on these. THANK YOU.
  - tptacek 11y ago
    What'd you love about CTF3?
    - grey-area 11y ago
      Not the op, but it had great docs including links to interesting papers, referenced real world problems (git, cryptocurrencies, consensus), had a set of levels organised around the theme of consensus nicely graded from easy to quite hard, and was doable in about a day of solid effort. Even if you didn't complete it probably felt like a learning experience for most people. Also, it was fun. Finally, the meetup afterward run by Greg explaining their architecture and issues encountered was interesting.
- danellis 11y ago
  Oh, I was just quoting gdb, who told me "he built all our CTFs" :-)